Clicking file manager > home brings up an authorization screen that asks for my password which I enter.
An error screen opens that says: error opening directory '/media/home/lost+found': permission denied
The same for os #3, 4, and 5, which are empty partitions.

This is probably because a fresh install of F16 creates a user with a default ID number of 1000 and an upgraded F14 to F15 would have a user ID of 500. You can access your files as root and copy them over then chown -R username:groupname the files. Another alternative is to create a new user with an ID of 500 to copy the files.

I don't understand the suggestions other than SteveA's, so am going to do the following:

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Take down system to single user mode and unmout system
1) Use init (process control initialization ) command to change runlevel 1 (singe user mode)
2) Use umount command to unmount /home file system
3) Run fsck using fsck command

Be sure to specify the file system type using -t option.
Otherwise more corruption can result, as fsck assumes the ext2 file system by default.
Example:
# fsck -t ext4 /dev/sda7 ... or ... # fsck.ext4 /dev/sda7

Could you post /etc/fstab and a screen-shot of the side-panel in the file manager?

It sounds to me like you and your computer are disagreeing about the meaning of the "Home" icon. It should take you to /home/your_account_name, not /media/home/. If your system is set up properly, the home partition should be mounted on /home, and listed in /etc/fstab. If it's being mounted in /media, that suggests that it isn't listed in fstab and the system is perceiving it as a foreign volume (much like a removable drive), and it's being mounted automatically on-demand.

There may well be user ID mismatches too, but lets get the file-system layout sorted first.

Could you post /etc/fstab and a screen-shot of the side-panel in the file manager?

# /etc/fstab
-bash: /etc/fstab: Permission denied

I've not done a screen shot in fedora before.

The /home I'm talking about is /dev/sda7 that has the files from F14/15, unless they're in /dev/sda3.

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Originally Posted by Gareth Jones

If your system is set up properly, the home partition should be mounted on /home, and listed in /etc/fstab.

I'm pretty sure F16 64 is set up properly, just that the previous f14/15 was blotched with preupgrade and also not being accessible now.
If the /home you are talking about is listed above desktop, trash, applications, files in the side panel, it is there.
And there's another home (media?) listed below that which I think is /dev/sda7.

Perhaps sudo vi /etc/fstab will work?
Uhoh I should not have done that. The f16 and swap partitions came up, nothing else.
I quit the terminal, hope that worked. Will wait for a response before proceeding.

Not sure about that. What sort of terminal are you using? (e.g. Linux console, graphical terminal emulator, SSH...) Most likely the file-systems are fine, the fsck is just a precaution, so don't worry about that. Once fstab is set-up, they'll be automatically fscked when needed.

No, leave out the device names in UUID and TYPE, I just put those in to differentiate the devices if they have different values.

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# sudo gedit /etc/fstab
sudo: gedit: command not found
#

Okay I just assumed that you were using the default Fedora desktop install, which would include gedit. Just use the text editor of your choice; vi will be fine if you're comfortable using it.

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Uhoh I should not have done that. The f16 and swap partitions came up, nothing else.

That's probably due to the device names in the UUID and TYPE fields of fstab confusing mount! Is the / file-system mounted? If so, correct fstab and reboot. (It may be mounted read-only if fstab wasn't parsed; you can make it writeable by running "sudo mount -o remount,rw /".) Otherwise I suppose you'll need a live CD to mount it from. Sorry my instructions were confusing!